by henry6
...on the EL lines. They competed because they moved the train(s) NY99 and NY100 like it was a pet passenger train. At the end, Binghamton was seeing over 24 freight trains a day in each direction and trains were moved by railroaders, not computers! Employees knew that the business of the railroad was to move trains for customers and each individual's job was to be perfromed to meet that demand. The EL knew it was not the prime mover, the Penn Central (by that time) hit all the "big markets" while the EL missed them...and that was their gold: they did't have to stop at every big city but could push right through and do Chi-Croxton in less time than the competition.
It was a brittle time as investment thinking was changing, big was better, and hurricaine Agnes washed out a lot of upstate NY west of BInghamton which was too much of an investment burden on investors so EL ended up in Conrail with the others.
It was a brittle time as investment thinking was changing, big was better, and hurricaine Agnes washed out a lot of upstate NY west of BInghamton which was too much of an investment burden on investors so EL ended up in Conrail with the others.
